Legal Analyst

RELX INC; Durban; On-site; ZAR 105,000 - 129,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing initiatives

Study assistance

Sabbaticals

Country-specific benefits

Job summary

LexisNexis Legal & Professional in Durban, South Africa, is seeking a Legal Editor to analyse legislation and maintain high-quality legal content across digital and print formats. You will collaborate with editorial, technology and commercial teams while leveraging AI-enabled tools to support innovative legal publishing solutions.

The role requires a law degree, strong research and editing skills, and an ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• LLB or equivalent law degree required and attorney admission.
• Strong legal research, analytical, editing and writing skills.
• Experience with AI-enabled platforms in legal workflows and publishing.

Responsibilities

• Review and analyse legislation, regulations and court rules to identify content impacts.
• Draft, review and maintain editor’s notes, annotations and cross-references.
• Evaluate legislative changes and updates to publications and databases.
• Conduct legal research to verify statutory history and authorities.
• Validate AI-generated content for legal accuracy and completeness.
• Perform proof review and quality control across print and digital platforms.
• Collaborate with editorial, technology and commercial teams on new content initiatives.
• Respond to customer questions and provide professional responses.

Skills

Legal research

Editing

Writing

AI in legal workflows

Attention to detail

Education

LLB or equivalent law degree

Tools

XML

Content management systems

Digital publishing systems

Job description

Durban HB South Africa

South Africa

Full time

R117175

Are you passionate about legal research, legislative analysis, and ensuring the highest standards of legal content quality in an evolving digital environment?Do you enjoy working with emerging technologies, including AI-enabled tools, while helping shape trusted legal content used by professionals around the world?

About our Team

LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,800 employees worldwide, is part of RELX (http://www.relx.com), a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. Our company has been a long-time leader in deploying AI and advanced technologies to the legal market to improve productivity and transform the overall business and practice of law, deploying ethical and powerful generative AI solutions with a flexible, multi-model approach that prioritizes using the best model from today’s top model creators for each individual legal use case. The company employs over 2,000 technologists, data scientists, and experts to develop, test, and validate solutions in line with RELX Responsible AI Principles.

About the Role

As a Legal Editor, you will play a key role in analysing legislation and legal developments, maintaining high-quality legal content, and ensuring accuracy across digital and print publications. You will collaborate with editorial, technology, and commercial teams while working with AI-enabled tools and workflows to support innovative legal publishing solutions.

Responsibilities

• Review and analyse legislation, regulations, court rules and related legal materials to identify content impacts.- Draft, review and maintain editorial content, including editor’s notes, effective date notes, annotations and cross-references.- Evaluate amendments, repeals, additions, delayed effective dates and other legislative changes and determine required updates to legal publications and databases.- Conduct legal research to verify statutory history, citations, references and legal authorities, and develop legislative roadmaps and implementation plans.- Actively work with AI-generated legal content by reviewing, validating and refining outputs to ensure legal accuracy, completeness and adherence to editorial standards.- Conduct proof review and quality control across print and digital platforms and support updates to court rules and regulatory content.- Collaborate with commercial partners, content editors and technology teams on new product development and content expansion initiatives.- Address external customer questions and complaints and prepare professional customer-facing responses.

Requirements

• LLB or equivalent law degree required and attorney admission.- Strong legal research, analytical, editing and writing skills.- Interest in statutory law, legal publishing and the application of AI and emerging technologies in legal workflows.- High attention to detail, commitment to quality and strong organisational skills.- Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.- Strong communication, collaboration and problem-solving skills.- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, content management systems and comfort learning new tools, including AI-enabled platforms.- Experience in legal publishing, legislative analysis or regulatory content management; experience with XML, structured content and digital publishing systems; and experience with proof review, publication workflows and print and digital production processes.

Work in a Way That Works for You

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

Working Pattern

Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.

About the Business

LexisNexis Legal & Professional® provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis® and Nexis® services.

We know your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. We are delighted to offer country specific benefits. Click here (https://www.relx.com/careers/join-us/benefits) to access benefits specific to your location.

We are committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process. If you have a disability or other need that requires accommodation or adjustment, please let us know by completing our Applicant Request Support Form or please contact 1-855-833-5120.

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RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers, enabling them to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive.

Our purpose is to benefit society by developing products that help researchers advance scientific knowledge; doctors and nurses improve the lives of patients; lawyers promote the rule of law and achieve justice and fair results for their clients; businesses and governments prevent fraud; consumers access financial services and get fair prices on insurance; and customers learn about markets and complete transactions.

Our purpose guides our actions beyond the products that we develop. It defines us as a company. Every day across RELX our employees are inspired to undertake initiatives that make unique contributions to society and the communities in which we operate.

We are an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.